Madison teacher assigns anti-war letters to 3rd graders

If you ever wonder how Madison became known as "69 square miles surrounded by reality," look no further than this story about a teacher who started indoctrinating his third grade students with the anti-war outlook via a class assisnment. The Madison Freedom Fighter has the story and a scanned image of the assignment.

At the high school and college level, it is perfectly acceptable to engage students in the world of opinions. Students have both learned enough and matured enough to come to their own decisions. But even at the high school or college level, it would be wrong to pigeon hole the students into an opinion. This third grade teacher took a group of impressionable young kids and through the assignment forced them to mold to his opinion. An opinion, I might add, that is well above what a third grader can fully grasp. The assignment has been rescinded by the school district, but the teacher should be suspended. This has no place in a third grade classroom-whatever happened to letting kids be kids?